Understanding different toolbar options

You can determine how your usergroup is designed to operate based on the options presented on the toolbar. For example, if you have Sandbox granted, you have access to the Create and Delete Sandbox options. When you do not see a sandbox list, you have Personal Workspace Writeback Mode.

Using direct writeback and named sandboxes
By default, IBM Cognos TM1 is set to use a direct writeback with named sandboxes. Your Administrator may have set your work options to something different.
Using a Personal Workspace and named sandboxes
The Personal Workspace provides a private work area where users can evaluate data changes before committing the changes to the base. Once data is committed, it is merged with the base and becomes available to other users.
Personal Workspace without named sandboxes
If you have access to a Personal Workspace but do not have the ability to name a sandbox, you do not see the Create and Delete Sandbox buttons and there is no area to list sandboxes since you always work in the same (and single) Personal Workspace.
Direct writeback without sandboxes
This is the classic, direct writeback mode for IBM Cognos TM1 . In this mode you do not have access to named sandboxes or a Personal Workspace. You do not have access to the Commit or Reset Data buttons, or have the ability to use Job Queuing. Data changes are not identified by color changes in this option. Data changes in this mode immediately update the server.

Parent topic: Writeback Modes and Sandboxes